Playyouth facilities preventing crime and disorder

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• Play/youth facilities - preventing crime and
  disorder

Roger Hampshire Crime Prevention Design Advisor
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Youth Shelters and Sports Systems A good
practice guide
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Know your audience and their expectations
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Consider the needs of youths and not just young
children is paramount when tackling crime and
community safety issues.
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Impression? The youth of today Responsible for
all the anti-social behaviour No interest in
anything What do you think you look like Bet hes
on drugs Hanging about, causing problems
Reality? Just a mate hanging about Being cool My
Dress sense What's your problem Not hurting
anyone Dont take drugs Nothing to do and no
where to hang around with mates
Your View
Perception?
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Excellent facilities, but where do they go when
they are too old for this amenity?
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The local bus shelter?
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Return to the play area
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Or a piece of land not designated as anything
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Hang about outside the shops. Why not, shops
provide all their needs, food, drink, light,
seats, excellent meeting points.
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ExampleFailure to Understand the Crime
Disorder Potential

• Ball Games
• Disturbances
• Damage
• Theft
• Disputes
• Assaults

Outcome Serious Loss of Amenity Massive Drain
on Police Community Resources.
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Some Definitions of Anti-Social Behaviour

• Crime and Disorder Act 1998 defines ASB as
  Acting in a manner that caused or was likely to
  cause harassment, alarm or distress
• Some Crime Disorder Reduction Partnerships
  describe ASB as Behaviour that unreasonably
  interferes with peoples rights to use and enjoy
  property, the environment and the community

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A.S.B. in order

• Vandalism, graffiti or other deliberate damage
  to property (Graffiti costs London 100m a year
  Vandalism costs England 1.3b a year)
• Teenagers hanging around on street corners
• Rubbish or litter lying around
• People dealing drugs
• People sleeping rough on street or other places
• Noisy neighbours
• Abandoned cars

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November 5th

• Oxford City-Local teenagers students fought
• 24 business premises had windows smashed
• Parked cars attacked - 4 overturned
• By end of night 33 persons arrested - 4 police
  officers injured
• Date - November 5th 1959
• There was trouble nearly every year, some blamed
  television, others the Teddy Boys
• 1950s was when the following phrases were
  introduced - Yobs Generation Gap Problem
  Families

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• What can be done what legislation is there?

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Crime and Disorder Act 1998

• Forms legal partnerships between councils
  police to reduce crime and improve community
  safety. ALL councils, including town and parish
  must work with police to reduce crime.
• Act applies to County, District, Unitary, Town
  and Parish Councils and all departments have a
  statutory duty to consider crime prevention
  community safety in all their processes.
• Main councils police must work together to
  produce a safety strategy document.

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Planning

• Safer Places the Planning System Crime
  Prevention 2004 Crime prevention is a material
  consideration in the planning process..
• Safer Places the Planning System Crime
  Prevention 2004 Provide activities for young
  people such as youth shelters, youth centres,
  sports pitches all helps to provide a focus for
  and can prevent criminal behaviour.

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Planning

• Planning Policy Guideline 17 now includes-
  Provision for children and teenagers - including
  need to provide play areas, skateboard parks,
  outdoor basketball hoops, and informal areas such
  as teenage shelters.
• Local Plans - need to include provision for
  youths as well as children - Consider N.P.F.A. -
  Six Acre Standard

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Performance Assessments Audit Commission -
Environment

• District Councils - The Audit Commission on
  public space looks at the councils corporate
  ability by asking 4 key questions-
• Q1 -Does the Council secure a high quality
  
  environment through new build and maintenance
  work?
• Q2 - Does the Council help keep the locality
  clean?

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Audit Commission - Continue

• Q3 - Does the Council work with partners to
  improve community safety? - Is the Crime Strategy
  addressing local national issues? - Is the
  partnership successful so far?
• Q4 - Does the Council contribute to activities to
  positively engage children and young people? -
  does the council have a clear idea about the
  needs of local children and young people? - What
  is the council doing to secure a range of
  activities for young people encourage their
  positive engagement?

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• Children/Youth Facilities and Crime Prevention

Roger Hampshire Crime Prevention Design Advisor
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What do Young People Want ?Ask Them!
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Young people

• A survey of 1000 children - 94 wanted to spend
  more time out of the house
• 80 of 9 - 16 year olds say they prefer being
  outdoors rather than in
• Fewer than 40 of Local Authorities have outdoor
  play policies
• Children and Young people make up 16 of the UK
  Prison Population, compared to 10 in France 7
  in The Netherlands
• Youth - has been targeted by adults as a social
  problem for at least 100 years (Prof. I
  Colquhoun)

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Benefits

• Three weeks after a skate park was finished
  litter and vandalism was down by 75 ?
• This was actually over the previous 18 months
  when liaison with the young people started

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The Three LsLiaisonLighting Location
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• Location

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Bus shelter outside shops, used as meeting point
by young people
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Some vandalism, but no real damage
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Same estate, bus shelter constantly damaged
note fencing on both sides of road.
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No natural surveillance by housing
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Frequently damaged
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Finally

• The bottom line to long-term public safety must
  be focused on youth. We know that youth who are
  not provided with adequate nurturing, support and
  structure, run greater risks of becoming involved
  in the criminal justice system. We know that the
  physical structure of communities contributes to
  the challenges facing youthbut we know that
  youth, when provided with opportunities to engage
  in productive activities will do so. When they
  aren't, they are more vulnerable to take another
  routeif we do not give youth an alternative to
  destruction or counter-productive behaviour, who
  has failed whom? (Zelinka 2000)